Police arrest two suspected highway robbers with pistol

Rilwan

6 months ago

Suspects Modiu and Sunday

Men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) Lagos State Police Command have arrested two persons in Lagos for unlawful possession of pistol and some live cartridges and attempt to rob on the highway in the Agbara area of Lagos.

Police source revealed the two suspects Rafiu Modiu, 25, Akintunde Sunday, 24, were arrested while trying to carry out robbery operation armed with a pistol and three live cartridges.

The two suspects, who were among the robbers who used to attack and rob inter-state travellers on a daily basis were paraded by the Commissioner of Police, CP Edgal Oluwole Imohimi at the state police command headquarters in Ikeja.

Modiu said: “I just bought the pistol N15, 000. We are not armed robbers. I bought the gun to use it to defend myself from the touts’ attacks who wanted to take over our motorcycle park or loading spot. It was on Thursday that police arrested us at a checkpoint on the highway after Agbara. They stopped us and saw the gun in our possession and arrested us.

‘’We told the policemen that some Omota boys (touts) used to come to our motorcycle park to attack us with intent to take over our park. They used to be armed and for us to withstand them and face them, we bought the gun in our possession which police found on us.

‘’I have never robbed before and I do not intend to rob till I die. I wanted to go and keep the gun in a safe place before police saw us and arrested us.